Burls Art Makes a Telecaster From 1200 Coloured Pencils

Youtuber and ‘pencil luthier’ Burls Art has made a bit of a name for himself for making creations with strange materials, like a snowboard made from duct tape or a Stratocaster built from a stack of coloured pencils. Well now, he’s taken the idea to the next level with a colour coded Telecaster and the results are nothing other than… satisfying.

Burls Art’s new Telecaster is a more refined version of his original Stratocaster design and features a colour-coded gradient that flows nicely along the body from purple to white. A major difference with this guitar is that he uses a higher quality clear epoxy resin to set the pencils, as well as a further coat after the original mould has been set.

The video below documents the whole process and it’s definitely satisfying to watch a bunch of pencils turn into a guitar. From the sounds of the demonstration, the guitar actually has a really nice sound to it too. Must be something in the graphite.

An update on Burl Art’s Instagram shows that he already has another project in the works – a guitar being made from quilted maple, which should be very interesting indeed.

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